Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Robert F Kennedy, has been stabbed at a California prison, US media reports say.<\/p>\n
Authorities said a stabbing happened at a prison near San Diego on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said “officers responded quickly” to the attack.<\/p>\n
The victim, whose condition is stable, was not named in the statement.<\/p>\n
But citing unnamed law enforcement sources, multiple US media reports have identified 75-year-old Sirhan as the victim.<\/p>\n
Sirhan is serving a life sentence at the Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility, where the stabbing took place.<\/p>\n
The suspected attacker, a fellow inmate, has been placed in isolation,\u00a0according to TMZ, which first reported the assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n The motive for the attack, which is under investigation, has not been revealed by officials.<\/p>\n Sirhan was convicted of murdering presidential hopeful Kennedy, who he shot three times at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968.<\/p>\n Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the hotel, shortly after declaring victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary to cheering crowds.<\/p>\n The New York senator, brother of former Democratic president John F Kennedy, died in hospital 24 hours later.<\/p>\n He was later buried at Arlington Cemetery, near his brother John, who was assassinated in 1963.<\/p>\n At his trial in 1969, Sirhan was originally sentenced to death. Three years later, however, his sentence was commuted to life in prison when California briefly outlawed capital punishment.<\/p>\n A Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, Sirhan has claimed he has no recollection of shooting Kennedy.<\/p>\n In a TV interview, Sirhan said he felt betrayed by Kennedy’s support for Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Sirhan Sirhan?<\/h2>\n